BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1899 Martinsville, Ind., Sept. 22 - Dr. Jarvis J. Johnson. a resident of this county for 50 years, died this afternoon, aged 71 years. He served in the Legislature and during the Civil war was a member of the Surgeons' staff in the Twenty seventh Indiana. Dr. Jarvis J. Johnson. Who died at Martinsville Friday, was one of the best known physicians of Morgan county. He was seventy one years old. Dr. Johnson was born on a farm near Bedford in 1828, where he grew to manhood. He then moved to Morgantown, where he practiced medicine for ten years. At the breaking out of the civil war he was commissioned captain, and afterward was appointed a surgeon in the Twenty seventh Indiana. Dr. Johnson was elected to the Legislature while at the ----, and he was one of Governor Mortan's advisers, and one of the Republican legislators who took that memorable ride to Jeffersonville to break a quorum, thus preventing the passage of certain obnoxious measures, In 1865 he was elected clerk of Morgan county, and removed to this city, where he continued to reside until his death. During Dr. Johnson's service his regiment was at Winchester, Va., where he found a magnificent skeleton hanging in a medical college. He took possession of it and shipped it to his home, where it saw service for twenty years In his office, and at times was used In the city schools in the study of physiology, The skeleton was known all these years as that of Watson Brown, the son of the Immortal John Brown, of Harper's Ferry fame. Watson Brown took part, in the fight their and was shot. The body was secured by the medical college authorities of Winchester, Va. and the skeleton was preserved. In 1880 Dr. Johnson decided to acquaint John Brown, Sr., of Pekin Bay, O., of the fact that the skeleton was in his possession, and John Brown, Jr.. came here and satisfied himself as to its genuineness, and it was then taken to Elba, N. Y., where It now reposes in the family burying ground. Dr. Johnson was a prominent member of the G. A. R. a Mason and a Methodist.. The body was interred in the cemetery at Morgantown, a special train conveying friends and relatives to that point Sunday.